Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. ..

Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band to Anne Murray's smoldering sexuality. In Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste fellow rock critic John Morthland has compiled a companion volume to Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung , the first, now classic collection of Bangs's work. Here are excerpts from an autobiographical piece Bangs wrote as a teenager, travel essays, and, of ..

Esta desternillante antolog a de semblanzas, ensayos, autopsias y rese as sirve para rescatar el trabajo del cr tico de rock m s famoso de los Estados Unidos: Lester Bangs. Textos escogidos por el tambi n periodista musical estadounidense Greil Marcus, de las diferentes publicaciones para las que escribi Bangs (Rolling Stones, Village Voice y Creem). Prosas reunidas en las que Marcus "trata de recomponer la imagen de un hombre que crea su propia visi n del mundo, llev ndola a la praxis, enfrent ndose a sus consecuencias y tratando de sobrevivirse a s mismo". Lester Bangs cre a apasionadamente en la fuerza redentora y transformadora de la m sica rock, reivindic ..

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung contains the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rock critics, Greil Marcus. ..

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung contains the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rock critics, Greil Marcus. ..